Gary basset allegedly threw a kitten against a wall, stomped on it and then tried to flush it down a toilet. Amazingly enough this cat survived and is now at the Missoula Animal Shelter:
Animal Control
6700 Butler Creek Road
Missoula, MT 59808
Phone: (406) 541-7387
The cats name is “Mercy”, and needs $900 to help fix a smashed pelvis. Make the check out to:
Friends of the Shelter
Mail to: Missoula Animal Control, 6700 Butler Creek Road, Missoula, MT 59808
Really disturbing story. I am stunned that this man was not taken to jail. To treat a critter like this is a serious sign of underlying issues.
mayorstaff@ci.missoula.mt.us
attorney@ci.missoula.mt.us
This man needs to be put in jail,
if the penalties for animal cruelty were more severe maybe
people would think twice.
It made me sick to my stomach to
read this article. I am sending my
donation.
Doesn’t Montana have animal cruelty laws on the books? What’s up with the District Attorney?
This guy has more than underlying issues…I hope he’s never left alone with children or anything else with a pulse.
I agree, what is going to stop this guy from doing this to a child or perhaps an elderly person, or another animal. I can think of a good sentence for this guy but I don’t dare voice it in our politically correct society where normal people go to the pokey and screwballs like this walk free.
Sick bastage…
The cat in question was brought to a WA vet surgery clinic, where it was deemed that the damage was too extensive to repair, and the pain too great. She had to be euthanized. Please contact you local and state representatives and request harsher penalties for Animal Cruelty.
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Thank you guys for the comments. I am thinking of closing this blog for a week to honor the cat, and because right now I am sickened by the human race. Comments would still be open of course, just no updates.
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Yes, we need much stricter penalties for animal cruelty. The statutes we have on the books right now are largely a joke–not only for those who abuse animals but those caught in illegal animal trade which is often done under the guise of it being a domestically bred zoo animal or for research purposes.
Check http://www.missoulian.com or http://www.kpax.com – sounds like this may be resolved. The man was obviously extremely sick.
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“Thank you guys for the comments. I am thinking of closing this blog for a week to honor the cat, and because right now I am sickened by the human race. Comments would still be open of course, just no updates.”
Mike,
This is where you lose me everytime when you make sweeping statements like this — this a-hole is an anomaly…yeah, there are too many of them out there, but still an anomaly. There are millions, if not billions, of decent people on this planet. Not all of them may agree with you or me, but they’re decent people and I would be willing to venture that they would be equally horrified by this news.
You’re not an island.
Bob – you are right, this guy is an anomaly. However, I wasn’t just commenting on the cat story, but also on this weeks wolverine and climate change story. I should have been more clear. I will post that story later.
He got what he deserved… not jail, death!
http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/IndyBlog/archives/2010/02/04/arrest-warrant-ends-in-suicide
No one “got what was deserved”, if you read about the man he had a 19 year battle with depression, etc. What the public did is put him in his grave not help him. What a sad commentary on our society, you literally “stoned” him to his own death. No one had the right to judge him without walking a mile in his shoes first. Shame on everyone involved with this crucifiction.
Depression is one thing, psychotic abuse is another.
Outstanding- He did eveyone a favor, one less psychotic abuser society has to deal with.
Guess what? Plenty of poeple have battled depression and they don’t torture and try to kill defenseless animals. You think this sicko was reading all these posts and thinking “gee, these people are all being so mean to me, I think I’ll off myself.” He didn’t kill himself until the police came to arrest him. If he did it out of a sense of remorse or shame, that’s one thing. The timing suggests he just wasn’t going to face the music…of his own making.
Whatever Perry…no one stoned him to death…there is help available for people they have to want it. Maybe he just realized the horrific act he did and felt terrible about it and ended his own life….now, who’s fault is that? I agree with you Mike. What were the police supposed to do ? Go in and hold his hand and tell hiom everything is ok. Put him on some meds …3 months later he kills a person. If he was capable of doing that to a poor defensless animal he could have done it to a child.
Shame on us for wanting protection for a kitten that was pummeled to death?? What other previous torture did this 63 year old guy do to all of the other animals he came into contact with? Really Perry you should have to screw your head on the right way. Using the excuse of clinical depression for this act is insane.
Yep, the guy was an insane depressed moron. He is gone, it is over. Meanwhile we are living on Chinese credit, China is the worlds number 1 animal abuser..
I don’t live in China currently. All of the world abuses animals.
What we can help change is here – where we live. things won’t change by using excuses.
A woman claiming she is the guy’s sister is posting wherever she can to tell the world the b*st*rd was a cat lover and loved his cat and that the poor baby kitten surely has forgiven this monster.
Excuses excuses excuses, when will it ever end? Mental illness my arse!
” What we can help change is here – where we live. things won’t change by using excuses. ”
Sure, and we can change our financial decisions to stop doing business with the Chinese..
We must get out country out of debt so that we aren’t owned by foreign creditors.
Right, and if we would not do business with Gary Basset, complicity is complicity, We should not be living on China’s dime.. Time for new leadership.
What does this particular post have to with foreign debt? The post is about a murdered kitten, and shows us the compelling violence on the part of some.
While you slam and insane animal abuser you eat out of another animal abusers hand.. Of course you are not responsible for your government’s financial decisions.. Are you ? Gary is dead, but by all means go kick him again..
Kick him again? I am not a violent person. He is a sign of a sickness in our society- that being accepted violence. All you have to do is watch tv for 5 minutes!
What people watch today indicates a level of acceptance for trash that no one watched 30 years ago. That is why we must protect our animals and wilderness–they are one of last vestiges of purity left.
Gline
Before violence occurs words are commonly used to foment or incite the violence. Kicking a dead man with words was what I meant and you know it. I receive death threats every week form your side of the ongoing wolf debate. Kill the hunters ! Now you guys have posted hunters names on a site, for some knuckle head to possibly resort to a violent act against them or their family. But you are non violent. ha ha.
The tell-a-lie-vision-indoctrination-sets should be tossed into the dumpsters.
Why would you receive death threats re: wolves? that doesnt make sense. So you are saying you are a wolf hunter?
Wolf hunters are amongst the most violent people I know. You are not killing for meat, you are killing for revenge. It is BS that you get threats from wolf advocates. It is the opposite- I get threats from writing letters in support of wolves. We are not the violent ones- you are. Live and let live. Wolves have a place and so do you.
Posting names is not violent. The names are public record. I report my name when writing a letter to the editor. Not everyone thinks killing a wolf is a good thing. Not at all.
I want to say at this point Greg, by your words you sound like a violent person. Do not ever contact me in person and I will quit this conversation at this point.
Let’s talk about wolves. According to the 2009 Montana wolf hunting regulations(Idasho requires wolf killers to at least keep the corpse in tact for inspection)……
Montana has officially released their 2009 wolf hunting regulations….”Wolves have been classified as a game Species, not as a predator….tags have been priced at $19 for Montana residents……..must have a valid Montana hunting license…..With your tag, you are permitted to kill 1 wolf. Montana defines a legal wolf as:
“Any male or female wolf, including young-of-the year”.
This means you can shoot any wolf you see including pups if you so choose……..Harvest Quotas
Anyone will be able purchase a wolf tag, but only 75 wolves will be killed in 2009. This means the season may be cut short if the quota is reached before the published date.”
Hmm, where shall I start? 1) wolves now conveniently classified as game–wolf meat must be good eating (must be from eating all those cows grazing free on government land) to classify it as game. 2) Only 19 bucks to a kill–damn that’s a good deal, lots of things I could take a gun to. 3) Wow, must have a valid hunting permit–get those for a few bucks at the corner feed and grain. 4) Can kill anything that looks like a wolf, even a pup, as long as it has four long legs and a tail, let’s not forget those big teeth grandma or was it little red? 5) Only 75 wolves will be killed and the season will get cut short–ya right! 6) For the 2009 Idaho Wolf Hunting Season Idaho has set a quota of only 220 wolves–why so few.
Well according to the 12/23/09 Billings Tribcon, I quote “Since September, hunters in Montana and Idaho have claimed at least 203 of the animals with Idaho’s hunting season slated to continue through March. Almost 300 more have been killed by government wildlife agents, ranchers defending their livestock, poachers and natural causes.”
Geez, I guess fish and game are just like their state politicians and can’t count. Oh, but the season may continue until Spring–when the killing is good, keep on killing. Now that’s a definite lie that they didn’t stop at 295 wolves. Isn’t that 108 over the combined limit of the two states?
I bet they won’t stop until they wipe out entire wolf population in both states. I’m sure there are a myriad of excuses and reasons as to why over 295 wolves (lets not forget the pups) were killed.
Would any official of either these two prominent states’ fish and game departments care to comment or defend their wretched mismanagement of the truth and their wolf populations?
The truth as you see it Jim is incorrect. I live here in the middle of this ongoing experiment and what you folks are telling, is not what I see.
I see those agencies working together to cover up the decimation of the elk. Because once this finally can no longer be hidden, then both sides will jump all over their failed management tactics.
And what you Maughanite worshiping people are missing, is this, if the elk wipe out is true, this is seriously advantageous to the ranchers you so hate.
The ranchers want the elk to fail, then wolf, the you. Wise up. I’m on your side, you fools just will not listen to the people living it. Until it is to late..
Gline, I have done more to expose violence in the last five years alone, than what you have done in your entire life.
I have done more to expose the Republican Frauds than you people have even come close to doing. You do not like me because I also expose the Democrat frauds as well.
The left wing/right wing divide in truth is that the left & right are both dialectical puppetry machinations of the elite and the “Conservatives” are as pro-Collectivism (elite’s fascist controlled Communism) as the Fabianist Labour, both are Statist (pro-Globalism. Super-Statist to be precise) power vampires.
I am not violent, and I have boycotted the hunts for over one year now. I have received many death threats from the pro wolf side of this debate, And I have contacted the pro wolf management bloggers and demanded they not trade in such activities.
I would never think of contacting some one as childish as you gline.
I shall post a blog showing the death threats very soon.. Coming from the nuts out there worshiping the wolf just a little a to much..
All of us who are responsible people should be doing what ever we can to stop the violence being threatened from both sides of the less responsible and over emotional unreasonable participants of this dispute.
Posting addresses of hunters to make it easy for some nut case to harm a family is and act of violence and is irresponsible.
Check out this website, it mentions a lot of factors besides just wolves having a decimating effect on elk. And it brings up several different arguments. In conclusion, it also indicates that further study is needed. This site is typical of what you can find and poses different viewpoints. Hunting is only part of the picture.
http://fwp.mt.gov/mtoutdoors/HTML/articles/2002/wolvesvselk.htm
It used to hunt also. It was great fun to go rabbit hunting with a 22 in the winter when the snow would melt. You have to be blind not to hit the sitting white bunnies–just hope you get them in the head otherwise they will scream at you. The following year rabbit hunting usually sucked because we overkilled the previous year becauue of the winter thaw. The concept is controlling wildlife–not decimating it in a couple of years. One time I was skinning out a coyote and it reminded me of one of my beloved, pet huskies I just put to sleep. That’s the last time I ever killed an animal on purpose.
“Wolf hunters are amongst the most violent people I know.”
You base that statement on what? Personal experience? How many wolf hunters do you actually know that you can make such a parochial statement?
And you don’t address the fact that there are regions — Minnesota and Wisconsin, for example, that wolves have reached a saturation point in “wolf habitat” and are expanding their range into more populated areas in those states. So there are more wolf-human conflicts? What’s a person to do when wolves are becoming more brazen in the presence of humans? Look the other way while their pet is carried off or not allow their children to play outside? This isn’t pre-European times and wolves don’t exist in a vacuum. There has to be some control at some point — which will undoubtedly include lethal methods…like hunting.
Get a grip.
I wouldn’t say wolf hunters are the most violent people that I know. Some of the most violent people, we know,usually go after other humans. Fortunately, many are in jail where they belong. Yup, it’s a problem because humans, their pets, their livestock, etc., now live in areas that only used to be inhabited by the native americans and the native wildlife. Well, we can’t all move back to europe or wherever we came from and most of us wouldn’t give up our homes. It’s called balancing the use and management of our resources, wildlife, agriculture, livestock, lifestyles, etc., etc. I am against killing wolves but we are in a situation where due to a lack of strategic, balanced control, humans and wildlife now exist in close proximity to each other. For years all wolves were eliminated, and then protected, now we are in a period where our old predator (wolves are not game animals because you can’t eat them unless you have a strange diet)management practices don’t work. That is my point. It seems like fish and game people in Idaho and Montana are out of control and are practicing once again the extermination method. Of course wolf advocates will be up in arms. Each group needs to be accountable to the other and not be so busy pointing fingers at each other from their polarized perspectives. My point also is if they intended to remove x number of wolves, then they should stick to that number, not all of a sudden exclude wolves killed by other means than the officially licensed hunters. This only creates distrust. In a couple of years they will say oh my, we mistakenly killed too many wolves. We get this crap from politicians all the time. Oh my, we’re sorry there weren’t any weapons of mass destruction to be found. Gee, sorry we have lost over 5000 of our soldiers to find out.
No, I haven’t talked about Minnesota or Michigan, my home state, because each region will need to develop a different wildlife management method (hopefully extermination will be the last resort)to keep a balance between the wolf and human populations.
As I have said before, we all need to dialog (which is what we are now doing) and create a compromised plan that will sustain our wildlife and our lifestyles so we all live as harmonious as possible. If we don’t plan, no one will be happy. What kind of a legacy to we want to leave our kids?
Jim — you realize that my comments were directed towards Gline, not you. You always present a reasonable view that takes both sides into account. In the case of the wolf, that’s important — it shouldn’t be held up as sacred, nor should it be crucified as evil. Thank you for your well thought out responses.
Yes Bob, I realized that. I didn’t intend to direct any of my verbiage towards you directly. My apology! You were speaking candidly and clearly to the points which I feel are valid. As a general rule, people still follow diverse (and often impractical) idealogies on wildlife control which are usally more tactical than strategic in nature. I think that the federal government was trying to relieve itself of the burden of blanket protection of a species that was eradicated on a state, regional or local basis. As a general rule, the federal government in a pure form, as our founding fathers envisioned, should primarily concern itself with national matters–not issues that should be determined by state and local governments. That is one reason why our federal government is so large–it’s trying to take care of business for which it was not intended. Now that many states have control of their wolf populations, they need to plan long-term strategies of animal (not just predator) control. Deer and raccoons in urban areas can be a problem as well, one can cause car accidents and the other is a rabies vector. Both are cute creatures but can be nuisance or problematic to humans. Predators can be a problem to our pets, children, and sometimes adults. What I see are people still clinging to either the bambi protection mentality or the only good predator is a dead one thought process. State governments must also build trust with all parties involved and follow sane managment practices–not pandering to one group or the other.
The last few days since the poor cat met an untimely demise (not to mention the other death on which I shall not comment) I have read some negative words which I would not expect to see in a public forum that is meant to be focused on the preservation of wilderness, animals, and our right to enjoy outdoor recreational activities. I hope readers have had a chance to refocus their thoughts on the purpose of this blog site and how we can use it as a means of positive exchange of ideas on this topic of nature on which we all have passionate feelings.
The problem with not managing the wolves is simple, the wolves will remove all prey from and area in a seven to ten years time span and then leave that area.
They then find a new area with prey and do it again, then they return to the area the left and repeat the cycle. In the meantime hunting opportunity for me is ruined. If you do not wish to hunt for meat, ok.. Cool. Just don’t be a dictator and force me to live life your way.
manage the wolves, so we all can share the prey base together, you guys keep spouting how we must learn to live with the wolf. Ok Fine, I am doing that, please stop telling me i must quit my way of life for you, and this dog, I paid for in the first place, by funding hunting opportunity and purchasing guns and ammunition. And if there are other taxes involved, I paid those to.
I want the wolves here, I want the wolves here, I want the wolves here, But a population which fits the hunt units, and prey base, not one that burdens it with over domination of it-the prey base..
That is the fact of the matter. This evolution science bunk is all theoretical, period, it is false science, it is BS, it is not working and it never will work..
If this keeps on like this, hunting will in fact will be closed in Idaho, in five to eight years. We have had 50% tag reductions in controlled hunt opportunity now.
Several units in Southern Idaho should be closed to hunting now. I live Here Jim, I see what the truth is. You people are so blinded with wolf lust, you cannot see the forest for the trees.
I supported a capture and release program versus hunting the wolf, and those could be placed in Utah, Colorado, etc. etc. But please explain to me what we are to do with SURPLUS wolves, historically all managed game has a SURPLUS which must be removed.
Canada has less people and more game, and they remove 1200 wolves annually. Man is keeping the balance.
I am sitting here looking at the death threats left me, and others, who merely wish to fight for our lives, and lands, and our wild animals, and our pro management of wolves views.
I don’t think I should post them any where, they are sick and horrible, threats against our wives, children, containing explicit sexual threats and death threats.
I have them in a file, get them every day. I can hardly read them.
Don’t post them. Rip them up–that’s all their worth. Life goes on.
You have indicated in previous posts that you are on property owned by your familty for 140 years and that is a legacy in itself. My family has had the same property for 105 yeears. We act responsibility for our families, our finances, our communities and our resources, both wild and natural. Those who don’t respect the rights of what property owners do in their own back yards, providing one isn’t breaking the law, have no say at all. You have indicated that you are trying to get those who hunt wolves, etc. to manage these resources wisely, as well as local elk herds. Then be assured that you are tempered in your actions and trust that those enacting and following wildlife management laws do so also.